<b>Information concerning ACPI may be found here:</b><br>
<ul>
 <li><a href='http://service.steinberg.net/knowledge.nsf/show/acpi_kills_audio_performance' target=_blank>Steinberg KnowledgeBase</a></li>
 <li><a href='http://www.musicxp.net/hardware_tips.htm' target=_blank>Tweak XP</a></li>
 <li><a href='http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q314068' target=_blank>Microsoft KnowledgeBase</a></li>
</ul>

<b>If you are considering disabling ACPI support, please note the following:</b><br>
<ul>
 <li>disabling ACPI on an existing installation may crash your system;</li>
 <li>consider protecting your valuable data  - use a drive image/ghost backup application;</li>
 <li>any resulting increase in audio performance may be less than expected;</li>
 <li>ACPI issues typically cause problems only when your soundcard shares an IRQ with other PCI/AGP cards;</li>
 <li>before disabling ACPI, try moving your soundcard to another slot to see if that helps.</li>
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